Several recent studies in educational literature showed how students’ skills in maths affect their success at higher levels of education. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of taking additional maths class at high school on first-year performance of Italian university students. However, university performance and the choice of the high-school depend on several factors that make this evaluation challenging. Using information coming from three different sources, we carry out a multilevel propensity score procedure to estimate the average treatment effect between the applied sciences track and the traditional scientific one. After balancing for school- and student-level covariates, the results of a logistic regression model suggest no difference between the two school tracks.
Martina Vittorietti, Andrea Priulla, Massimo Attanasio (2022). Does taking additional Maths classes improve university performance?. In SIS 2022 | Book of Short Papers. Pearson.
Does taking additional Maths classes improve university performance?
Martina Vittorietti;Andrea Priulla;Massimo Attanasio
2022-10-01
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Several recent studies in educational literature showed how students’ skills in maths affect their success at higher levels of education. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of taking additional maths class at high school on first-year performance of Italian university students. However, university performance and the choice of the high-school depend on several factors that make this evaluation challenging. Using information coming from three different sources, we carry out a multilevel propensity score procedure to estimate the average treatment effect between the applied sciences track and the traditional scientific one. After balancing for school- and student-level covariates, the results of a logistic regression model suggest no difference between the two school tracks.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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